Maintenance or Mission? At the Masses last weekend I threw out a challenge. Given the dramatic fall in recent years in the number of people attending Mass regularly on Sundays, […]

The best known quote from Julian of Norwich, a great spiritual writer who died just over 600 years ago, is ‘All will be well and all manner of things will […]

I heard on the radio that this is Random Acts of Kindness Week. I don’t know who decides these things but I think this one is a great idea, and […]

Beyond the Commandments When the Bible tells the story of Moses bringing down from the mountain the stone tablets containing the Ten Commandments, it says that the people rejoiced because […]

Fifth Sunday of Ordinary Time We often hear folk proclaim that their faith is a very private affair, something strictly between themselves and God. Of course there’s a place for […]

Our Gospel this weekend says ‘Jesus resolutely took the road for Jerusalem’ but another version puts it more strongly: ‘Jesus set his face towards Jerusalem’. Either way we get a […]